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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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> There are rivaling explanations, one being that you estimated the distance wrong, the other that there is no Dark Matter. Isn't the first one the more likely one you should investigate? If y…
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> No, underestimated. Oops, yes. Wrote that backwards. Thanks for the correction.
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> if requiring dark matter to explain galactic physics can be dispensed with by a distance correction, doesn't "we've been underestimating distances all this time" serve as a si…
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It's worth nothing that the authors of the original NGC1052-DF4 article claiming little to no dark matter have disputed the conclusions of the Trujillo+2019 (i.e., the paper the phys.org article …
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Location: Northern Florida Remote: Yes or on-site Willing to relocate: Yes to: USA, Canada, or Europe Technologies: python, statistical methods, data-model comparisons, LaTeX, some experience with: C…
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> the Hubble telescope is practically obsolete (and indeed obsolete, since it will be de-orbited soon). This isn't quite accurate. Hubble has ultraviolet capabilities that are impossible to ac…
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> JWST is for researching high-redshift object - the most distant things we can see in the universe. It's not a planet-hunter. JWST is a general purpose observatory. It will make significant a…
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> The satellites are hard to spot already, To the naked eye, perhaps. But large telescopes and their instruments are incredibly sensitive. So even if the satellite constellations are minimally visi…
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The twitter thread (and most of the discussion here) is focused on the optical impact of these satellites. As @watersb mentions in a reply[0] these satellites will likely have an impact on radio teles…
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From a reddit thread[0], there are preliminary TLE data here[1] and you can enter that into gpredict[2] to show when you might be able to see a pass. Edit: I wasn't able to easily find newer TLEs…
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Title is missing the trailing digit, should be "in 2018".
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The linked page says flickr is down for planned maintenance. There's not really anything informative/educational on the linked page. Not obviously anything that "gratifies ones intellec…
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> Racket can probably do everything you want (i.e. serve as its own 'LAMP stack'). Here's a quick tutorial on web applications in Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/…
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I think you and @Kiro are in agreement. My interpretation of @Kiro's comment is that most of the world doesn't do employer-provided insurance, so that aspect of @ggm's comment would ess…
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> why not have both and also allow remote ? let the employee decide which one they prefer. The article is about home floor plans, not business offices.
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Very neat. An online demo of it is here: https://avanor.se
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> The project goals are admirable. And when it's up and running it's great. But it's incredibly finicky to maintain and it's quite challenging to install. Agreed. I guess I coul…
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I was excited about MediaGoblin[0] for a while, but it seems development has mostly stalled. The last release was in March 2016(!). Things were going smoothly until they seemingly started devoting the…
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> I do think that the reaction that they are impossible to drink from is more than a little silly, though. Maybe if you leave the straw in the drink for many hours it will collapse on you? I haven’…
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Here's a link to the paper itself, since the APS article only links to the main journal page: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.99.08... …
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There is a racket port; I do not know how complete it is, though a quick look at the open issues suggests not all the pieces are there yet: https://github.com/bennn/mechanics The…
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Who also wrote "Functional Differential Geometry": https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/functional-differential-geome... …